
Calendar of Events
APRIL 2001 |
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| April 2, Monday |
Peter Schott, Yale, "Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the
United States," Workshop in Trade and
Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5:00 pm
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| April 3, Tuesday |
V.V. Chari, Minnesota, ""Financial Crises as Herds" (with Patrick
Kehoe). Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:00 pm
Elena Krasnokutskaya, Yale, "Pricing Auctions in the Deregulated
Electricity Market," Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:00-3:30 pm
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| April 4,
Wednesday |
Doug Rae, Yale, "The End of Urbanism," Faculty Lunch
Workshop.
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
11:30 am-1:00 pm
John Rust, Yale University, "Middle Men versus Market Makers: A
Theory of Competitive Exchange" (joint with George Hall). Cowles Foundation Lunch
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse
12:00-1:15 pm
Abby Innes, London School of Economics, "The Great Electoral Lottery
in Post-Communist Europe and EU Integration," The Yale Program on European Union
Studies.
Room 202, Luce Hall
12:00-1:30 pm
Philip Hoffman, California Institute of Technology, "How the French
Revolution Reshaped Financial Markets," Workshop in Economic History
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse
4-5:30 pm
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| April 5, Thursday |
Bartosz Mackowiak, Yale, "Monetary-fiscal interactions and
(in)stability of price level pegs," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse
12-1:00 pm
Aviv Nevo, U. California, Berkeley, Sales and Consumer Inventory, Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 608b (joint
with Micro/Strategy Seminar)
Horchow Seminar Room, 55 Hillhouse
4 pm
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| April 6, Friday |
Rob Townsend, University of Chicago, "The Nature of Financial
Constraints: Distinguishing the Micro Underpinnings of Macro Models," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
(joint with Trade and Development Workshop)
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| April 9, Monday |
Cliff Carrubba, Emory University, Political Science, "How
Transnational Courts Can Evolve into Binding Institutions," Political Economy
Workshop
Room 203, Luce Hall
12:00-1:30 pm
Romain Wacziarg, Stanford University, "Stages of Diversification," Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5 pm
P. Kurukulasariya, Yale, FES, "Water Improvement Valuation in
Sri Lanka," Natural Resource Seminar
Sage 32, 205 Prospect
4:00 pm
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| April 10,
Tuesday |
N. Gregory Mankiv, Harvard, "The Inexorable and Mysterious Tradeoff
Between Inflation and Unemployment," Macroeconomics
Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:00 pm
Garth Frazer, Yale, "Measuring Returns to Education Using Direct
Controls for Ability with Linked Employer-Employee Data," Prospectus Workshop in Microeconomics.
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30 pm
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| April 11,
Wednesday |
Giacomo Corneo, University of Osnabruck, Economics, "Individual
preferences for political redistribution," Political Economy Workshop
70 Sachem St.
NOON
Svetlana Boyarchenko, University of Pennsylvania, "Capital
Accumulation under Non-Gaussian Processes and the Marshallian Law," Microeconomic Theory Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
Susanne Schennach, University of Chicago, "Estimation of Nonlinear
Models with
Measurement Error," Econometrics
Research Seminar
Room B8, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
Rebecca Menes, George Mason College, "American Government Expansion
Before the New Deal: The Growth of Urban Government 1902-1931," Workshop in Economic History
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
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| April 12,
Thursday |
Feng Zhu, Yale, "Nonparametric Analysis of the U.S. Income
Distribution," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:00 pm
Christopher Flinn, NYU, "Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and
Earnings in the Presence of Search and Matching," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| April 13, Friday |
Stephen Cacciola, Yale University, "On-Board Computer Use and
Organization in the Trucking Industry," Microeconomics
Workshop on Labor and Population
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| April 16, Monday |
D. Dziegielewska, Yale, FES, "The Benefits of Air Pollution Control
in Poland," Natural Resource Seminar
Sage 32, 205 Prospect
4:00 pm
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| April 17,
Tuesday |
Thomas J. Sargent, Stanford University, "Wanting Robustness in
Macroeconomics," Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:00 pm
Yi Deng, Yale, "Private Value of European Patents," Prospectus Workshop in
Microeconomics
Common Room, 28
Hillhouse
2:30 pm
In-Koo Cho, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Escape
Dynamics" (joint with T. Sargent and N. Williams). Bounded Rationality and
Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
6 pm
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Bounded Rationality and Macroeconomics
The Cowles Foundation is funding a number of major research initiatives at Yale. This
week, two of these programs, one in macroeconomics and one in bounded rationality, combine
to bring several prominent scholars to speak on related work.
Tuesday, April 17
Thomas J. Sargent, Stanford University, "Wanting
Robustness in Macroeconomics," Macroeconomics
Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2 pm
In-Koo Cho, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Escape Dynamics"
(joint with T. Sargent and N. Williams).
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
6 pm
Wednesday, April 18
Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing with
Uncertain Growth," Joint Cowles Foundation Seminar,
Microeconomic Theory Workshop, and Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| April 18,
Wednesday |
Daniel Diermeier, MEDS, Northwestern University, "Mass political
action," Political Economy Workshop
70 Sachem St.
NOON
Tomas Garcia Azcarate, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, "Harmonizing
the Common Agricultural Policy with Nature in an Enlarged Europe." The Council on
European Studies at YCIAS
Room 203, Luce Hall
2:00 pm
Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago, "Robustness and Pricing
with Uncertain Growth," Joint Cowles Foundation Seminar,
Microeconomic Theory Workshop, and Macroeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
Maristella Botticini, Boston University, "A Human Capital
Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews," Workshop in Economic History
Room 108, 28 Hillhouse
4:00-5:30 pm
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| April 19,
Thursday |
YLS Corporate Law Roundtable, please see http://www.yale.edu/law/ccl/ for details.
Room 122, Yale Law
School
9:00 am - 4:15 pm
Hui Wang, Yale, "Within-industry momentum study and its implication in
explaining momentum," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:00 pm
Lanier Benkard, Stanford GSB, "Demand Estimation with Heterogeneous
Consumers and Unobserved Product Characteristics: A Hedonic Approach," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| April 20, Friday |
Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Education in a Crisis," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| April 23, Monday |
Garth Frazer, Yale University, "The Firm and the Family Network:
Measuring the Relative Productivity of Relatives," Workshop in Trade and Development
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5:00 pm
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| April 24,
Tuesday |
Nancy Epling, Yale, TBA. Prospectus
Workshop in Microeconomics
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
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| April 26,
Thursday |
Alexis Milo, Yale, "Is Risk Aversion Constant in Financial Markets?
Some Evidence," Macro Lunch
Common Room, 28 Hillhouse
12:00-1:00 pm
Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Where is
Europe? The EU and Mapping of East and West," The Council on European Studies at
YCIAS
Room 103, Luce Hall
Noon
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke, "Affirmative Action in Higher
Education: How do Admission and Financial Aid Rules Affect Future Earnings?," Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
2:30-4:00 pm
Jesse Fried, UC Berkeley, Law, "The Uneasy Case for Share
Repurchases," LEO Workshop
Room 121, Law School
4:10-5:40 pm
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| April 27, Friday |
Pierre Andre Chiappori, University of Chicago, "Household Labor
Supply, Sharing Rule and the Marriage Market," Microeconomics Workshop on Labor and Population
Room 106, 28
Hillhouse
12:15-1:45 pm
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| April 30, Monday |
Hiroyuki Chuma, Yale University/Hitotsubashi University,
"Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm
Factors," Workshop in Trade and
Development.
Room 106, 28 Hillhouse
3:30-5:00 pm
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